Tuesday, July 17, 2007
ELDERS TO FIX WORLD, NAP
All our problems are to be solved:
Nelson Mandela celebrates his 89th birthday tomorrow in Johannesburg, launching a humanitarian campaign along with former President Jimmy Carter, ex-UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and other “elders” of the global village. The initiative stems from an idea by British entrepreneur Richard Branson and musician Peter Gabriel to create a world council of elders to tackle issues such as conflict, AIDS and global warming.
Hold on, oldsters. You might want to start with projects of a slightly less ambitious scale. For example, a neatly-restored VW Beetle in my street has small rust pockets forming on the driver’s side door. Let’s see the Superfriends do something about it.
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